Isabella Reed was the youngest self-made billionaire in the state. At thirty-two, she ran Reed Dynamics, a multinational tech company her late husband had founded. After his sudden death two years ago, she took over and made it even more successful.
She had a beautiful penthouse, a fleet of luxury cars, and a five-year-old daughter named Sophia who was the center of her world. On paper, Isabella had everything.
But at night, when the house was quiet, she felt an emptiness that no amount of money could fill.
Her board of directors had been pressuring her for months. They wanted her to remarry — not for love, but for stability. A single mother at the head of a billion-dollar company made some investors nervous. There were even quiet threats of a hostile takeover if she didn’t “settle down.”
Isabella was tired of being told what to do with her life.
